Letters, Dec. 1, 1947

Are any among us truly amazed that one John G. Winant could no longer
endure this age [TIME, Nov. 10]? The marvel is that many more of us
have not taken the same way out. We have lived through ten years of
hellthe most diabolical "witches' sabbath" ever put on since the
beginning of recorded time. Thirty million people, men, women &
children, have been starved, tortured, shot, blown to bits, frozen,
gassed*murdered by every conceivable method of fiendish cruelty
mostly at the hands of "civilized, enlightened, cultured,
progressive, democratic...